Both your premise and your conclusion are valueless.
Someone who is physically identical to you in an identical situation [b]is you[/b]. The Pauli Exclusion Principle allows for nothing else.
And given that there can only be one you, the concept that you "would do exactly the same thing as you are doing right now" becomes trivially true - simply a statement of mathematical identity.
Free will as discussed by cognitive scientists has little resemblance to the free will of immaterialist philosophers. The former demonstrably exists; the latter is not even a coherent concept under a materialist worldview. Try not to drag your Philosophy 101 baggage into discussions of the real world; it rarely helps.
Give it time, Islam's still stuck in a little after the inquisition era christianity.
Actually, Islam has been on on a downward trend the last 50 years or so, in no small part due to the pernicious influence of Sayyid Qutb. Islam has a problem with a Christian-style Reformation because the Koran is held to be the inerrant word of God, but there were strong trends towards moderation and modernisation, particularly after the First World War. A lot of that progress has sadly been reversed over the last few decades.
The key to the whole issue is that Microsoft doesn't name any of the patents. They don't have a case; this is pure standover tactics. Demanding payments from Linux users when nothing has been proved - or even claimed - in court?
Unlike SCO, they do have a lot of money, and can run any number of lawsuits more or less indefinitely. But still, this is the first sign I've seen of real panic from Microsoft.
Slashdot's moderation is based entirely on opinion. Half the time, people just use it as +1 Agree or -1 Disagree (like, oh, a certain site that starts with "D").
What I'd like to see is new moderation options: +1 Right, -1 Wrong, and -5 Stupid.
It's also important to note than education is not primarily funded at the federal level. These figures are a few years old, but they show that only 7% of elementary and secondary education expenditure is federally funded.
I argued that he was an awesome role model, because sometimes people need to see a mistake end badly for someone else before they'll do what's necessary to protect themselves from making the same mistake.
And then he was caught speeding on the way home from hospital.
Frankly, you sound like a thoroughly creepy person, and I'm completely on the side of your school administration. Maybe they were wrong, and you're a nice guy apart from your tastes in music and movies and clothes and your violence fetishes and...
The number is way off though. Before 1900 nearly all remedies were herbal; they've been in mankinds pharmacopia for about 7000 years according to recoded history and even chimps have been shown to know what roots and twigs to eat if they're sick.
This is all true.
And they didn't work. Most of those herbal remedies didn't, and don't, do a thing - though quite a few are actively dangerous. In 1900 we had aspirin and opiates for pain relief, and iodine and carbolic acid for disinfection, and that was basically it for effective medicines. The sulfa drugs and then penicillin were ENORMOUS breakthroughs - they could actually cure diseases! In the US in 1850, the life expectancy at birth was around 40 years for both men and women. By 1900, it was around 50 years. By 1950, after the introduction of these antibiotics, it was 66 for men and 72 for women.
And herbal medicines haven't changed at all since 1850. Think about that.
You're talking about a country where an elected leader can be sacked for getting head
Really? What country is that? Little tip: Clinton was impeached; he was not removed from office.
but an unelected leader can't be prised from the grip of power with a shoe-horn made of righteous indignation millions strong.
Again, a little tip: Bush was elected. Twice. You may not like it, but that's how it is, under the rules set out in the Constitution. Indignation, righteous or otherwise, is completely irrelevant. And come January 2009, he is gone.
Are you sure the contrast is as stark as you're suggesting?
Which is an absolutely bogus interpretation of the entire concept.
Not at all.
You have to read the First Amendment: It says Congress shall make no law... It's very specific: The legislature has no power to abridge the freedom of speech. The judiciary can make determinations on specific civil suits, after the fact, but there is no prior restraint.
Funny, I ran the technical operations for an ISP until last November and I never heard of that list.
There is a list of sites that have been shut down, but those are sites that were hosted in Australia. There's no list of sites that you're not allowed to access. There simply isn't any filtering in place to do that.
Right now there is a push to force ISPs to use content filtering, in fact the Fed Govt has a tender out now to evaluate effectiveness or otherwise of filtering technology.
This happened years ago. But by the time it became law, it had been so watered down that the only real requirement was for ISPs to inform their customers that filtering software was available.
The real biggest problem with this theory is that it is incredibly stupid. I thought at first that the article was talking about emissions from the cell towers, which would be ludicrous enough, given the widespread nature of the problem and the low emission levels if you are any distance from a tower.
But they're talking about handsets. The only way a cell handset is going to kill a bee is if you drop it on the poor thing. Or if she tries to talk while driving without using hands-free.
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Both your premise and your conclusion are valueless.
Someone who is physically identical to you in an identical situation [b]is you[/b]. The Pauli Exclusion Principle allows for nothing else.
And given that there can only be one you, the concept that you "would do exactly the same thing as you are doing right now" becomes trivially true - simply a statement of mathematical identity.
Free will as discussed by cognitive scientists has little resemblance to the free will of immaterialist philosophers. The former demonstrably exists; the latter is not even a coherent concept under a materialist worldview. Try not to drag your Philosophy 101 baggage into discussions of the real world; it rarely helps.
Or they could be lying.
Let's see those emails.
I don't mind Liz. She's a good sort, and not at all stuck up... Bruce.
I'll thank you to refer to Our Betty as Her Majesty. (She's also HRH the Duchess of Edinburgh, but when you're referring to her queenship, it's HM.)
Hang on, there's someone at the door. BRB.
The key to the whole issue is that Microsoft doesn't name any of the patents. They don't have a case; this is pure standover tactics. Demanding payments from Linux users when nothing has been proved - or even claimed - in court?
Unlike SCO, they do have a lot of money, and can run any number of lawsuits more or less indefinitely. But still, this is the first sign I've seen of real panic from Microsoft.
Never mind -2 Stupid, for this one I need -6 Insane.
For once I have mod points - and there's no -2 Stupid.
Slashdot's moderation is based entirely on opinion. Half the time, people just use it as +1 Agree or -1 Disagree (like, oh, a certain site that starts with "D").
What I'd like to see is new moderation options: +1 Right, -1 Wrong, and -5 Stupid.
It's also important to note than education is not primarily funded at the federal level. These figures are a few years old, but they show that only 7% of elementary and secondary education expenditure is federally funded.
Where did you think the money came from?
If you're gonna sleep with that hot green-skinned space babe, have the decency to call her the next day. Or at least send flowers.
First you reject anything that matches your blacklist. Then you reject anything with spelling or grammatical errors.
And while you're at it, reject anything containing HTML.
Your inbox will be cleaner than it's been since 1980!
Frankly, you sound like a thoroughly creepy person, and I'm completely on the side of your school administration. Maybe they were wrong, and you're a nice guy apart from your tastes in music and movies and clothes and your violence fetishes and...
And they didn't work. Most of those herbal remedies didn't, and don't, do a thing - though quite a few are actively dangerous. In 1900 we had aspirin and opiates for pain relief, and iodine and carbolic acid for disinfection, and that was basically it for effective medicines. The sulfa drugs and then penicillin were ENORMOUS breakthroughs - they could actually cure diseases! In the US in 1850, the life expectancy at birth was around 40 years for both men and women. By 1900, it was around 50 years. By 1950, after the introduction of these antibiotics, it was 66 for men and 72 for women.
And herbal medicines haven't changed at all since 1850. Think about that.
Buy stuff made in Taiwan. There's plenty of it, it's cheap, usually good, and it'll piss off the Chinese.
Except that a growing number of Taiwanese companies have factories on the mainland these days...
You have to read the First Amendment: It says Congress shall make no law... It's very specific: The legislature has no power to abridge the freedom of speech. The judiciary can make determinations on specific civil suits, after the fact, but there is no prior restraint.
Funny, I ran the technical operations for an ISP until last November and I never heard of that list.
There is a list of sites that have been shut down, but those are sites that were hosted in Australia. There's no list of sites that you're not allowed to access. There simply isn't any filtering in place to do that.
The 8600GTS delivers 40% of the performance of the 320MB 8800GTS for 70% of the price.
The 8600GT outperforms a 7600GT - but is priced like a 7900GT.
The real biggest problem with this theory is that it is incredibly stupid. I thought at first that the article was talking about emissions from the cell towers, which would be ludicrous enough, given the widespread nature of the problem and the low emission levels if you are any distance from a tower.
But they're talking about handsets. The only way a cell handset is going to kill a bee is if you drop it on the poor thing. Or if she tries to talk while driving without using hands-free.